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Select Bond Portfolio

Actively managedBondsOpen-end fund
NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL SERIES FUND INCHoldings as of Jun 30, 2026Filed Aug 20, 2026

Actively managed U.S. bond fund

As of its 2026 Q2 report, Select Bond Portfolio held 958 positions with $2.87B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 14.3% of the fund. The fund costs 0.31% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, it returned 5.4%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 159 new positions and exited 224.

2026 Q2 holdings and allocationChanges are against the previous quarter, 2026 Q1
Expense ratio
0.31%
$31 a year for every $10,000 invested
one share class
$2.87B
The whole fund, all share classes
958 holdings
14.3%in the top 10
Weight held in the ten largest holdings
Top 25 hold 26.7%
Return, 1 year
+5.4%
With dividends, to May 2026
3 yr total +13.4% · 5 yr total +1.9%
What this fund is
Objective, as filed

The primary investment objective of the Portfolio is to provide as high a level of total return as is consistent with prudent investment risk.

Strategy, summarised

The fund invests primarily in investment-grade debt securities selected through fundamental analysis for relative value, seeking securities believed undervalued relative to peers of similar credit quality and interest rate sensitivity. The adviser maintains an overall dollar-weighted average effective duration within 10% of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index and may engage in active trading to capitalize on opportunities or exit positions that have achieved target returns or become overvalued. The fund normally holds at least 80% of assets in debt securities including U.S. government obligations, mortgage-backed securities, corporate bonds, and asset-backed securities, with up to 20% in foreign securities. Because security selection depends on the adviser's relative value assessments, fund performance may diverge from its duration benchmark.

What you own

per cent of the fund
CompanyWeightValue
UMBS, TBA
5.00% · due 2056-07-13
1.93%
$55.61M
United States Treasury
4.75% · due 2056-02-15
1.89%
$54.26M
United States Treasury
2.00% · due 2041-11-15
1.63%
$46.89M
United States Treasury
3.63% · due 2030-03-31
1.57%
$45.15M
United States Treasury
3.88% · due 2030-04-30
1.37%
$39.31M
United States Treasury
3.75% · due 2030-06-30
1.32%
$37.84M
United States Treasury
3.63% · due 2030-12-31
1.23%
$35.35M
Government National Mortgage Association
2.00% · due 2051-02-20
1.21%
$34.87M
United States Treasury
3.00% · due 2049-02-15
1.15%
$33.01M
United States Treasury
1.38% · due 2050-08-15
1.02%
$29.24M
Showing 1–10 of 958 · the top 10 are 14.31% of the fund, the top 25 are 26.75%

The 200 largest of 958 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.

What the fund is made of

Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.

100.19%
of net assets
Bonds56.26%
Securitized43.93%

By sector

Securitized
43.8%
Government
28.8%
Other
6.0%
Financials
5.2%
11 other sectors
16.2%

How it has done

Total return, dividends reinvested · to May 2026

C000000082 share class · total returns with dividends reinvested

1 year
+5.39%
3 years
+13.44%
Cumulative, not per year
5 years
+1.94%
Cumulative, not per year
Largest decline in 3 years
-5.12%
From a previous high to a later low
Cumulative return, last three years· Jul 2023 – May 2026

Volatility over the last 12 months: 3.27%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.

Jun 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.

Fees & fund details

Select Bond Portfolio is an actively managed U.S. bond fund.

Asset class
Bonds
Region
United States
Management
Actively managed
Fund type
Open-end fund
Credit quality
Investment grade
Rate sensitivity
Intermediate duration
Expense ratio, by class
0.31%
Portfolio turnover
234.00% a year · as of 2026 Q2

Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.

Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.

Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.

What changed this quarter

2026 Q2 vs 2026 Q1

Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.

159 new· the largest 2

UMBS, TBA
2 holdings
United States Treasury
6 holdings

224 exited· the largest 2

United States Treasury
5 holdings
UMBS, TBA
3 holdings

Debt profile

What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-06-30

Avg coupon
4.01%
Avg maturity
15.73 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

8%
floating
Fixed rate91.8%
Floating rate8.2%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

<1y10y+
<1y0.2%
1-3y8.9%
3-5y17.1%
5-10y16.6%
10y+57.2%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: none reported
In arrears: none reported
Paid in kind: none reported

Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.

Risk profile

Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2

Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying about half as much.

6.02 yr
approx. move per 100bp
2.13 yr
approx. move per 100bp
If rates and spreads both rise 100bp

Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.

≈ -8.0%
of value
Interest rates74%
Credit spreads26%

Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.

Credit risk by quality

Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.

+2.13
yrs total
Investment grade+2.12 yr
High yield+0.01 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.

Interest rate6.02 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.02 yr0%
1 yr0.58 yr10%
5 yr1.66 yr28%
10 yr2.46 yr41%
30 yr1.30 yr22%
Credit spread2.13 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.01 yr0%
1 yr0.21 yr10%
5 yr0.71 yr34%
10 yr0.82 yr38%
30 yr0.38 yr18%

The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.

Show the numbers
TenorRate yrsIG yrsHY yrsIG $/bpHY $/bp
3 mo+0.02+0.01+0.00$1.8k$14
1 yr+0.58+0.21+0.00$60.1k$242
5 yr+1.66+0.71+0.00$204.1k$746
10 yr+2.46+0.81+0.00$233.0k$1.3k
30 yr+1.30+0.38+0.00$109.5k$380

Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.

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